Kaustubh Nair
Software Engineer at Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKaustubh Nair is a software engineer with 8 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Cisco out of Bengaluru. He brings a strong open-source pedigree—two-time Google Summer of Code alumnus who improved Zulip’s official terminal client (message handling, unread/topic logic, emoji autocomplete) and modernized Public Lab’s MapKnitter Rails stack while boosting test coverage. Comfortable across Python and Ruby on Rails, he has built and deployed backend APIs and Dockerized AWS infrastructure for startups, and contributed thoughtful UX improvements to terminal-based clients. Kaustubh blends pragmatic engineering with community-driven development, with a track record of turning maintenance-heavy projects into cleaner, more testable codebases. His background from IIIT Bangalore and hands-on open-source experience make him adept at collaborating across distributed teams and legacy systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier's High School, Nashik Road - IndiaInternational Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
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Github Skills (10)
terminal-ui10
chat10
zulip10
api10
urwid10
terminal-application10
python10
chat-application10
pytest9
collaboration8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip-terminal
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Official Zulip terminal client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 89 commits, 47 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaustubh focused on enhancing the functionality of the Zulip terminal client by implementing and refining features related to message handling, including read and star status updates. They modified core model logic to handle events from other clients and refactored code to streamline the management of unread counts and topic-related data. Additionally, the user contributed to the user interface by adding autocomplete functionality for emojis and refining key bindings.
terminal-apppythonzulipchatcollaboration
kaustubh-nair/DBMS-from-scratch
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
A primitve dbms made from scratch using C :tada:
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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